Man Fatally Stabbed At Steakhouse With Daughter On His Lap; Homeless Suspect Arrested

VENTURA (CBSLA) – A man stabbed in the neck while sitting with his young daughter on his lap at a Ventura steakhouse Wednesday night has died, and a 49-year-old homeless man was arrested in what’s believed to be a random attack.

According to Ventura police, at about 9:20 p.m. Wednesday, the suspect, identified as Jamal Jackson, entered Aloha Steakhouse, located at 364 S. California St., and stabbed a man in the neck with a knife in what appeared to be a random attack. The victim, later identified as Anthony Mele, was rushed to a hospital with life-threatening wounds, where he underwent surgery. However, authorities confirmed that he died from his injuries Thursday.

Mele was dining with his wife and 5-year-old daughter at the time, police said. His daughter was sitting in his lap when he was attacked. Mele’s wife and child were not hurt.

Good Samaritans chased the suspect, Jackson, onto the Ventura Promenade, where officers arrived and took him into custody.

Prior to the stabbing, witnesses told police the suspect was waving a knife and threatening people outside the restaurant.

On Thursday afternoon, Mele’s mother posted a picture of her son on Facebook asking for prayers as he was fighting for his life. However, in an updated post Thursday night, she wrote: “Thank you for your prayers — my son Anthony did not make it… just unbelievable.”

Officials are trying to determine if drugs or alcohol played a role in the attack.

Jackson was initially booked in the Ventura County Jail on attempted murder charges, according to inmate records. However, those charges were since upgraded to murder and child endangerment. He is being held on $500,000 bail.

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Knives are the 2nd most used weapon in murders in Kaly.. Accordng to CA DOJ stats, .. hands and feet / blunt Objects are numero one.. Guns come in 3rd.. Soo yes.. It’s time for knife control. We need to demand a backgrd check and a 4 day waiting period with a Utility bill to confirm their residence.
Londonstan now has so many killings with kives that the top doctor there said it will be a bloodbath during the summer.

Who would have thought? A lot of people thought it was a threat but were not allowed to speak. A business that has to worry about losing their life’s work because people are afraid to go there think about it. A whole lot of people have solutions that those in power do not want to see enacted. We are told not to fear some people who look dangerous but should be afraid of a weapon that “looks” dangerous.

Blacks are the top priority of California leadership…….they get health free insurance and tuition, lots of welfare, free ObamaPhones, reparations soon, and special favors and treatment. What more could they ask for? (Probably plenty.)

If we a Southern Californians don’t rise up to this lunacy and grab the bull by the horns and get in the faces of these libturd politicians and Jerry Brown types. Then we reap what we sew. The difference is I’ll be packing heat most of the time…will you? This story is disgusting and I feel so bad for the father and the daughter.

why would anyone live in california?
self-defense is ILLEGAL and murder is LEGAL.
dangerous thugs are allowed to roam freely.
california is a s—hole.
get out while you still can.
just GET OUT, and leave it to the perverts and weirdos.
let them kill each other.

This is what happens when these people are indoctrinated with rhetoric claiming that the reason for all that ails them is “racism” by progresso-fascist politicians and their leftist main stream media supporters.

The vast majority of the homeless have mental health and alcohol issues. Cities that condone the homeless camping out all over the streets share responsibility for these unnecessary deaths. What a horror for the wife.

2nd time this happened in a week. The other guy was in NY and a homeless guy came into the restaurant and stuck a steak knife into the guys back who was eating there. Both guys in that case were black. They need to build homeless encampments outside of major cities. Make them live in the country until they want to become productive citizens again or they don’t and stay there so people in the cities will be safe.

until Ca voters get their head out of theiraz and vote Right, liberal socialist CA will continue to support the drug crazed , homeless, illegals and other terrorist groups….all for the sake of equality.
Equality of what………..that every CA person’s life is miserable?
Vote Right and move on up the chain of human evolution.

If someone had called the cops before this “homeless” (what we used to more appropriately call bums or derelicts) psychopath murdered an innocent man, Aloha Steakhouse would have had to shutter its doors for a PR stunt day of diversity training and the manager fired and publicly humiliated as a racist.

And that poor little girl and the rest of the family will carry this with her for the rest of her life, but hey, diversity is our strength, right?

Lesson for you all, especially when you’re feeling kind, generous and sympathetic to these societal parasites: give them nothing. Not water, not kindness, not nothing.

These News Agencies around the country are out of their minds! They act like this is random and shocking. This type of random and vicious violence toward whites from blacks, Latinos and Native Americans in the U.S is totally commonplace! This sort of thing happens regularly in places with large “minority populations”. These news agencies need to stop lying to people and stop calling people “racist” for telling the truth.

thanks, democrats, for pitching these poor broken people out onto the sidewalk to fend for themselves, as they did my schizophrenic brother so he could enjoy 20 years of nighttime beatings, arrests for stolen car joy rides, smashing my parents’ home & lives…

This article went so far out of the way NOT to mention Name or Race of the perpetrator. Wonder why. /sarc When you welcome and encourage the homeless………….. What happens to the democratic party when this goes too far and California votes Republican?

If proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, the state ought to behead Jackson – Saudi style instead of having him steal oxygen in prison for 55 years. And before anyone says anything re race, I would say the same if the murderer would be white. If you do the crime, do the time, or in a case like this -forfeit your life.

They are trying to figure out if drugs played a role? Does it matter? That homeless guy should have been beaten to death on the spot by the people sitting around that man. I would like to see police arrest someone that did that. Stopping this puke from hurting someone else would be of paramount importance. No jury would convict.